Eating Out
Inspired by the mountains of Syria and the sea of Lebanon, Hayat restaurant was born from the crossroads of ancient traditions providing diners an inviting atmosphere where they can savour the tastes of the Levant with a modern-day...
Eating Out
Located in the lively Villeray district of Montréal, Casavant is a new neighbourhood joint, a French brasserie-style restaurant where good times and good dines are the name of the game. With design by architecture and design studio, MRDK, the...
Eating Out
A Montreal institution, Clarke Café has moved to a larger location, the Italian sandwich shop now occupying a 1,400 square foot space on Rue Shearer in the city's historic Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood. Architecture office IVY studio,...
Lifestyle
Following increased gentrification from around 2010 — though still not without its problems — Montreal's Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood is home to one of the city's largest public markets and the mid-1970s erected Olympic Stadium, it's also...
Eating Out
Long-time collaborators by LEMOIGNAN and MHA have rejoined forces after a hiatus, the Montreal-based design studio and architecture and design office collaborating to create the architectural signature and restrained but distinctive aesthetics for...
Eating Out
From panoramic vistas of the Montreal skyline to a stellar line-up of chefs, Place Ville Marie — floors 45 and 46 to be exact — is where locals and travellers with their fingers on the pulse will be headed this year. A prominent urban hub and...
Shopping
Blending beauty, sustainability, and nature, retailers ATTITUDE create natural body care and household products available in their boutique store on Rue Saint-Denis, Montreal, as well as in over 50 additional countries around the world. As a...
Culture
M.A.D. Collectif (Mode, Arts et Divertissements) is a Montreal-based group of creatives formerly known as Groupe Sensation Mode, and they have recently moved to a new 3,600 square foot space in the city's lively Village district, partnering with...
Bars & Nightlife
What started as a 'home brewing' project more than 35 years years ago to finance studies, Laura Urtnowski and Bernard Morin's Les Brasseurs du Nord went on to be a pioneer in the Quebec microbrewery scene, and today beer aficionados can come...
Eating Out
Historically a working-class neighbourhood, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve has seen slow gentrification in the past few years, the Montréal district now brimming with an eclectic mix of pawn shops and dive bars located alongside high-end furniture shops and...
Eating Out
Ristorante Piatti is somewhat of a local institution for affluent Montreal suburb, Rosemère; the contemporary Italian restaurant a go-to for business lunches, celebrations, romantic dinners, and everything in-between since 2008. Serving a menu...
Lifestyle
After Covid scuppered the plans of Zendesk's office upgrades, the company (having acquired Montreal start-up ‘Smooch' shortly before the global pandemic, and looking to house their new Canadian team) decided to reconsider their approach to work...
Stuff Crush
“I am not sure whether my father totally understood my fascination with his photographs of package holidays,” explains artist Jake Clark, whose obsession with seaside resort architecture has been informed by his childhood growing up in the...
City Notes
Opening today, 28 February, Hôtel Hana Paris is the latest addition to the Adresses Hotels Collection, a fancy group of decadent boutique hotels that includes Monsieur George and Saint Tropez's La Ponche; the five-star luxury property set to...
City Notes
Passing away at the age of 60 in May 2021, Michelangelo Lovelace was a Cleveland-based artist renowned for his vibrant paintings depicting quotidian scenes of urban life, policing, poverty, war, and personal investigations of Black Identity....
City Notes
An urban sanctuary so laid back it's horizontal, Pátio do Tijolo is a truly beautiful 24-room boutique hotel that offers its guests a fusion of authentic Lisbon tradition with soothing contemporary aesthetics. Drawing on the 'slow life' concept,...
Dispatches
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way many of us think about work. With lockdowns and social distancing measures making office-based jobs difficult over the past few years, working from home became the new normal for millions. As we move further...
Dispatches
If you can imagine putting wheels on your favourite luxury resort you'll get an idea of what your vacation can be when you use RVshare to rent an RV in San Diego. With RV vacationing, you can combine an adventurous road trip with luxury living on...
Dispatches
The world is your oyster and the streets of many foreign cities are waiting for you to walk them, but are your feet ready for it? If you do not have the proper walking shoes, then the answer is no. Some choices in walking shoes offer little to no...
Dispatches
As a single adult male in my forties, I was exploring various adult hookup apps first. My limited offline presence and introverted nature objected to my interest in finding ladies for meetup and casual encounters. But then a good friend of mine told...